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Working For a Bad Boss

Rev. Ryan Laughlin | 9 min read

Who was the worst boss you ever had? I suspect a name and a face come quickly to mind. In fact, bad leaders are easy to remember. While some of...

The Need to be Needed: Finding Dignity in Our Life’s Work

Erin Rodewald | 13 min read

More than a dozen years have passed since we buried my father-in-law. I sometimes wonder what he would make of our historical moment. Jim had a servant’s heart, and COVID...

November 11: A Sacred Day for a Biblical Calling

Rev. Nathan Newman | 9 min read

Yesterday, thousands of Washington, D.C. locals and visitors processed in reverent silence to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, commemorating its one hundredth year. Situated in the heart...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Why Work?

Hugh Whelchel | 9 min read

According to the Wall Street Journal: “The COVID economic shock has unleashed unprecedented creative destruction, sharply accelerating the transformation that we once quaintly called the “future of work.”[i]Others suggest that...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Motherhood as Vocation

Kate Harris | 8 min read

This article is reposted from its first publication in 2009. We’ve found these reflections to have lasting relevance, and to be well worth revisiting. In Washington DC, it is only a matter...